August oaelbwitz



A; OARLEWIT'Z.

GORNIGE AND GEILING DECORATION.

Patented'July 28, 1885. I

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(No Model.)

IlNrTEn STATES "ATENT FFrcEt AUGUST OARLEXVITZ, OF NEWARK, NEWV JERSEY.

CORNICE AND CEILING DECORATIONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,110, dated July 28, 1885.

I Application filed September 3, 1884. (N0 model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Auons'r OARLEWITZ, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Cornices and Ceiling Decorations not heretofore known or used; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and clear description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a cross-section. or face view.

Oornices for ceilings have been run in the angle formed by the wall and ceilings, and also cast in separate sections and then fixed in position by plaster, thejoints being covered with an ornament of some kind in order to make a proper finish. In the case where the cornice is run in the angle the labor is great and no ornamentation can be produced, and in cases where the cornice has been cast in molds it has been in sections not over three feet, owing to the weight and brittleness of the material from which they are cast. The sections of Fig. 2 is a plan cast cornice have also to be secured in position.

by plaster.

The object of my invention is to make a very light but strong cornice or other plaster decoration with the least possible amount of plaster and of such construction that itmay be placed in position with screws or nails passing through it into the ceiling or wall.

In the drawings, A represents the cornice or ceiling decoration, B the wall, and G the ceiling.

In the construction of my new cornice I use a mold, which should be of the proper design, and into the mold I first pour a deposit of plaster, which is represented inthe drawings by the letter at. This first layer of plaster 40' forms the outer surface of the cornice. Ithen lay upon this layer of plaster a strip or layer of canvas or cloth, 0, which is pressed evenly onto it. Another layer of composition or plaster, 1), is then filled in on the canvas, and at 5 each edge of the cornice strips of wood a a are embedded, so as to become fixed in position by the last layer of plaster, and thereby form a part of the cornice.

The cornice is secured to the ceiling and side wall by screws 6 e passing through the wooden strips, and, if desired, the heads of the screws may be covered by a small piece of ornamental plaster, d.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cornice or ceiling decoration composed of plaster or composition and wooden strips embedded at the edges, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a molded cornice or ceiling decoration, the compositionor plaster, intermediate layer of cloth' of canvas, 0, and wooden strips a, all combined together, substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.

AUGUST OARLEWITZ.

WVitnesses:

G. O. WEBNER, Tnno. HORN. 

